The 27 - 60 metre wide asteroid 2000 UK11 will make a close pass (62.0 lunar distances, 0.1593 AU), travelling at 11.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November, 2010 @ 03:56 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (...

A small asteroid, perhaps 3 to 6 meters in diameter - the size of a room or house - came within 88,000 km of Earth late on Friday, September 27 2003. Less than a quarter of the distance to the Moon, this is the closest well-documented Earth encounter of an asteroid that has not struck our atmosphere. Known...

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